Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson says the Chinese have evolved a completely different relationship between giant tech and government and it’s going to be fascinating to see how the two co-exist.

Baseball stats guru and author Bill James talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of understanding complexity in baseball and elsewhere. James reflects on the lessons he has learned as a long-time student of data and the role it plays in understanding the underlying reality that exists between different variables in sports and outside of sports.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli joins Benjamin Boer, deputy director at Advance Illinois, and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss how a coalition of advocates succeeded in getting the Land of Lincoln to overhaul its inequitable school funding formula.

Hoover Institution fellow Russ Roberts examines what thinkers actually think is often very far removed from how their image is hijacked and caricatured for narrow political ends, especially in the present environment.

Dick Carpenter of the Institute for Justice and author of Bottleneckers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a look at how occupational licensing and other regulations protect existing job holders from competition.

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